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The Hermiston Herald BLUE GRASS su m an i IDEAL FOE COWS DIVERSIFIED FARMS FAY — OPPORTUNITIES ARE HERE. of i VOL. XXIV — NUMBER 19— HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1930 JANUARY 13 DATE OF NEXT SHIPMENT OF LOCAL TURKEYS ’T'AHO-OREGON POOL SOLD YES TERDAY IN BOISE Number One Toms Sell for 32 Cents; Prices Received Higher Than Formerly. Turkeys will be received In Her- niston Monday, January 13, tor the anuary pool of the Oregon-Idaho • rk y growers association, according to word received yesterday by New Madden. They will be received at the same place that they were be fore— the warehouse in what was for merly Hurly’s store on the west side of town. The prices growers will receive at this pool are considerably better than those received last time. The pool was sold yesterday in Boise for the following prices: Number one toms, 32 cents; num ber one hens, 28 cents; medium toms, 27 cents; old hens, 24 cents; old toms, 25 cents; number two toms. 23 cents; and number two hens, 21 cents. OREGON POULTRY PRODUCERS ADVISED TO KEEP MORE HENS Writer Optomistic About Egg Prices - iu 1930; Says They W ill be as High as in 1929. WORD RECEIVED OF DEATH OF FORMER HERMISTON MANI Fred J. Praan Dies Tuesday Evening I Mr. Herald Here. Mr. W. H. Herald of the Herald Electric company of Walla Walla was la Hermiston Wed need ay. t Mrs. L. Hammer Leads Discussion; Art to be Subject at Next Session January 17. “Sewing” was the subject dis cussed at the last meeting of tire Women's Auxilary of the Farm Bur eau at its regular session January 3. Mrs. Wells talked on cutting and fitting dresses and Mrs. New Mad den gave an instruction talk on new print materials. Mrs. L. Hammer was the leader. A button hole contest was one of the features of the afternoon’s en tertainment. Mrs. H. J. Ott won the first prize and Mrs. Henry Hook er won second prize. Gifts were ex changed among those present and refreshments were served. At the next meeting, January 17, Mrs. S. Barnard will be the leader and the subject will be “Art.” The Auxiliary solicits new mem bers and welcome visitors at ail of the meetings. League to Meet Program Changes Prominent Agriculturists to Speak | Before Eastern Oregon Grain Growers in Pendleton. The Eastern Oregon Wheat League Senator Charles L. McNary and Congressman R. R. Butler of regon have introduced Bills In the Senate an organization comprising the grain and the House authorizing the construction of a dam at Umatilla Rapids on the Columbia rievr as an aid growers of 11 wheat producing coun to navigation and reclamation, the development of hydro electric power and »n inter-state bridge. A survey ties of Eastern Oregon, will hold its has been completed by the Bureau of Reclamation declaring it feasible from an engineering standpoint. It annual meeting in Pendleton, Janu will materially aid ln the canalization of the Columbia and Snake rivers. The power plant will gener ary 13, 14 and 15, in the rooms of ate 420,000 H. P. at an aunusually low cost of 1.2 mills per killowatt hour. The sale of power at the dam, the Pendleton chamber of commerce. for two mills per kilowatt hour will retlrs the cost of the entire development in a period of 42 years. The Bill presented In Congress is framed along the lines of the Boulder Canyon measure. All farmers and business men inter It will also be possible to Irrigate some 100,000 acres of arid land in the states of logon anj Washington ested in the wheat growing industry are cordially invited to attend, ac when economic conditions Justify. The cose of the Project is estimated by the engineers at $45,000,000. cording to Roy W. Ritner, president. The Bill also requires that no work be started until contracts have first been made to assure amortization Among those prominent in agri of all costs, including interest. Thhe congressional delegations of Oregon, Washington and Idaho are giv culture in the Pacific Northwest who ing support to the measure, feeling that the development of the Colubla and Snake rivers is of paramount will be on the program are Dr. A. M. importance to the Pacific Northwest. The recent power emergency in the Northwest lends Importance to Schoenfeld, northwest representative this partlclar project. of the Federal Farm Board; George ____„ _ co-operative c marketing A. Gatlin, .specialist of the Oregon state college; GOVERNMENT BUYS TRACT HUNTERS BAG TOTAL OF 37 B. W. Whitlock of the Federal Grain ♦ OF LAND, DISPATCH SAYS * COUGARS DURING DECFMBEB Grading Bureau of the Department of * WHOLE STORY NOW OUT * Agriculture; Dr. Clark Black, presi-| ♦ ------ « Cougar hunters of Oregon had According to a dispatch received in ❖ dent of the CotinoMa Valley A story wl, 4 begun last week ♦ their bee month in years when in Kendleton from Portland the govern elation; George C. Baer, secretary of| ❖ that wasn’t finished, according <• December they bagged a total of 3 the Umatilla Rapids association; and ment has secured a large track of ❖ to Clara Hall, whose chickens ❖ of the ‘‘big cats.” The majority ol H. E. Goldsworthy, secretary of the land on the Oregon side of the Col ❖ got tipsy after drinking some ♦ the kills were made In those sec North Pacific GTafn Growers, In umbia river, south of Umatilla rap ❖ peach Juice that had fermented ❖ tions of the state that are the favor ids, and is planning a large airport corporated. Besides these, several a few weeks ago. The rest of ❖ ite haunts of deer. Charles H. Ei professors from the Oregon State col or landing field there for the use of ❖ the story is that soon after the <• win of Hoaglin led the list for the mall planes. lege and D. E. Stephens, superintend ❖ story got out about the chick- •> month with the slaughter of six and The present air mall schedule ❖ ens, Miss Hall's business in- <• ent of the experiment station at was pressed for honora by John makes it necessary for mail planes Moro, will be present. creased rapidly. Her first new ♦ Oblack of Molalla with a total of flying east from Portland to go to The federal marketing act and the ❖ customer was J. S. West, local ❖ give. Gard Saunders of Elkton and plan for the wheat growers’ co-opera-1 Pa8C0 an<i the new air field is plann- ❖ Justice of the peace, who said ❖ tlve organization will be discussed ed w,th a view of shortening the ❖ he wanted the eggs for egg nog. ❖ Bud Kintzley of Fall Creek each kill ed four cougars while Clay Ulnm of thoroughly. The matters of freight I <H»taace Milo and Dale Bonney of Drew each rates and river transportation will | The dispatch has not Jeen verl- accounted for three of the cats. Er aiso be taken up. There will be allied locally and full information con- win, in addition to killing six cougar E. F. Dodd Here. banquet Tuesday evening in the din-1 cerning the project is not available E. P. Dodd, real estate dealer of bagged a wolf. ing room of the Elks building. Walla Walla, was ln Hermiston this 1 Sees Show Pendleton. Mrs. Henry Hitt saw the show week-end In the interests of pros In Mr. HARVEY DE MOSS TAKES UP and Mrs. O. .O Felthouso were WORK AS FIRST PRESIDENT ‘Rio Rita,” in Pendleton Monday. pective land buyers. in Pendleton the first of the week. Although officers for the Commer cial club for the coming year were supposed to have been elected at the last meeting of the club Tuesday noon, it was decided to postpone the election until the meeting next Tues day. In the meantime a committee has been apoolnted to nominate can I didates for the offices. Members of this committee are F. C. McKenzie, | H. E. Hitt, and A. W. Turnhlad nt Work. Mrs. Lein Phelps 1« again at work) Herbert Hedwall was la the Her- la the Hermiston postoffice. She has ileton hospital the first part of this been oat for several weeks because! Wk With aa infected band. BUREAU AUXILIARY MEETING SIX MILES NORTH OF HERMISTON Fred J. Prann, of Cresco, Iowa, I was burned to death Tuesday even ing. January 7, according to a tele phone call received here by bis brother, A. W. Prann. So far. no particulars regarding the death have | been received. Fred J. Prann was one of the early | settlers of the Hermiston project, having bought an orchard tract on I Hermiston avenue in 1908. He set this tract out in trees In 1909. Ini the fall of 1909 he returned east. | coming back to Hermiston in the fall of 1911. He remained here until 1927. That year be sold his place and returned to Cresco, Iowa, where | he was engaged ln the mercantile | business until bis death. TO BE CHOSEN NEXT TUESDAY I The U. P. bus schedule has changed and the bus that did come in at 2:32 now comes In at 1:21. It le this bus that carries the mail to Boardman SEWING TOPIC AT LAST FARM Where White Horses will be Harnessed. of Burns at his Home in Cresco, Iowa. Oregon as an egg producing state was compared with California and ?ya>i l > ngftOn ln **** ,ast number of the Eggsaminer” and came out even with them from the point of view of possibilities and behind them when It came to aetuai production. The author of this article says,"For the first ten months of the present year, California, after feeding a popula tion of 5,600,000 shipped out of that state 1683 cars of eggs; Washington With a population of 1,587,000. shipped out 1662 cars, while Oregon with a population t l 1,065.000 shlp- ped out only 371 cars.” Totaling up the different advant ages of the three states the author comes to the following summary: Oregon and Washington has the ad vantage over California from the standpoint of original Investment. The states are all even when it comes to social conditions and physical fac tors favorable to profitable, product Ion. California has a slight advant age when the marketing conditions are conidered, while Oregon with its climate has the advantage from the Eastern Oregon Normal School, La| standpoint of feed costs.. Balancing Grande, Oregon, January 7— Perma the advantages and disadvantages of nent organization of the Associated | the three states as egg producers, the Students of the Eastern Oregon Nor author finds they all rank the same mal school has been completed, and I His conclusion Is “The whole thing the honor of being the first presl-1 1* a nutshell Is that most Oregon dent bestowed on Harvey DeMoss of poultry men do not keep enough hens Hermiston. Mr. DeMoss, who holds I per farm. . . .Far too many people the most important position of the I try to run a poultry plant with four eight officers elected by the student! or five hundred hens when they are body, has assumed his duties with | capable of operating plants with five the opening of the winter quarter. or ten times as many. The overhead per hen is too much.” Mrs. Harrah Leaves. In another article in this issue, Mrs. J. D. Harrah, who has been I the author gives the following rea managing the Hermiston hospital, is sons why egg prices should be Just getting ready to leave Saturday eve-1 as high as In 1930 as they were In ning for Walia Walla. After stay 1929: The price of eggs during the ing there for a while she plans to I past year has shown no undue In go on to Los Angeles, California. Mrs. I flation. There will be no increase Harrah sold out her Interests In the I in production. People who bought hospital last Friday. She sold all eggs and stored them last year made her furniture and is taking only her I money on them. Thia will be an im personal belongings with her. She I portant factor in determining the at saye that she Intends to take a de-1 titude of the people this spring. Co served vacation for a while. operative marketing societies will aid la securing good prees or la the stor- COMMERCIAL CLUB OFFICERS Ipg of eggs. RUB SCEHDULE CHARGED SUBSCRIPTION. $2.00 PER YEAR of sickness. A New Tune—— — Meeting Arranged Especially Men; Head of Echo Group To be Here. for Some changes have been made In the program for the next meeting ol the P. T. A. January 16, according to Mrs. H. O. McCulley, president. Dr. F. V. Prime will sing a solo and Mr. D. W. Davis, president of the Echo P. T. A., will be at the meeting He will bring some of the members of his organization with him. The rest of the program will be at announced last week. F. B. Swayzc will talk on the school budget and the pupils In the sixth grade will give a dialogue. Floyd Pierce wil' recite a piece called “Bald-headed Man.” The program has been arranged to he of particular interest to men Men have been asked to serve the re freshments. Frank Shaw, Fred Gib son. A. E. Rensel, W. J. Warner and W. W. Fclthouse are on the commit tee. Mrs. Howard Reid Is the general chairman. MBS. HESTER A REEVES, 87, DIES TUESDAY IN HERMISTON One of the oldest Inhabitants ol Hermiston, Mrs. Hester Ann Reeves 87, a pioneer of the state of Oregon died at the home of her son, H. A Hooker, of Hermiston, Tuesday, Jan uary 7. Mrs. ReeveB had been bed fast for the past two years. She was born in Indiana, July 30 1842 and after her marriage came west to Kansas. In 1888 the family moved to Washington and settled lr, Walla Walla for a number of years Mrs. Hooker later moved to Oregon where she lived for about 25 years in the vicinity of Baker and at Her mlston. Mrs. Reeves was a pcnsionei of the Indian war. She was the mother of seven child ren, five of whom are living. They are Henry A. Hooker, of Hermiston; Ira B. Hooker, of Milwood, Washing ton; G. L. Hooker, of Everett, Wash ngton; Mrs. J. F. Hartley, Walla Walla; and Mrs. J. L. Boardwhy, Yakima, Washington. Two brothers and one sister survive her: Georg, Kelsey, Walla Walla; Charles Kelsey, who lives in Illinois; and Mrs. Anna Wicklser, Lake Charles, Louisiana. Funeral services were today at 1C ’clock. They were conducted by O W. Payne of the Methodist church of which Mrs. Hooker had been e membor for 70 years. Burial will be in Walla Walla. BARKER-BENSEL Coming as surprise to many of their friends was the recent announ cement of the marriage of Beatric, Bensel aad Fred B. Barker, both of Hermiston, New Year’s eve. The wedding was in Pasco, Washington at the Methodist parsonage. The Rev. Hill performed the ceremony. Friends of the couple were present. Mr. Barker has been here for the past two years as the local manager rtf the Swift ft Company cream sta tion. Mrs Barker is a graduate of Hermiston high school and lived here for a number of years. She is the daughter of Mr. and .Mrs. A. E. Rensel. Mr. and Mrs. f!a .Sr ure now liv ing at the home of .Mrs. Ptarle Pace. They expert to move Into a home of their own toon. $1 0 ,0 00 TOURIST PARK TO BE BUILT IN THIS LOCALITY CONSTRUCTION BEGUN ON SITE SOUTH OF TOWN Store, House, Garage, 10 Cabins to be B u ilt; T. L. and H. G. Stewart Owners. Construction started Friday on a new $10.000 tourist park to be loc ated on a portion of the C. C. Mason ranch on the highway south of town. The owners of the park, to be named “f,tewa$t Service ft iSupp3y Com pany”, will be H. G. Stewart and his father, T. L. Stewart. The cabin that is now being built will be used as a home for a while. By April or a little later, Mr. Stew art plans to open the grounds with a total of 10 cabins, a store, and a complete garage equipped to do all kinds of repairing on farm imple ments as well as automobiles. H. B. Dickinson, of Seattle, will be the mechanic. The style of the cabins will vary somewhat. The price will range from 31 a day to about $2.50. All the cabins will be equipped with running water, modern conveniences and a stove. Some will have in addi tion showers, hot water, and will be equipped to accommodate more per sons. A garage will be attached to each cabin. The store and garage will be situ ated in the fore part of the camp ground an^ will be surrounded bya lawn. The cabins will be back far ther and will be shaded by trees. The new camp ground will be the only ones between The Dalles and Pendleton to have all modern con veniences In the cabins, Mr. Stewart says. He believes his location is ideal not only because Hermiston Is about a day«’ drive from larger centers but also because tbe camp ground will be located at a turn ln the road. Mr. H. G. Stewart Is now here and is going ahead with the plans. T. L. Stewart is still In Bremerton, Washington, and will not be here for several months. PORTLAND MEN BUY LOCAL HOSPITAL; NAME TO CHANGE New Owners W ill Take Possession This Friday; Dr. Marble to Be Manager. “Kiawanda Health Center Nitmber 8” will be the name of the Hermis ton Hospital when it is taken over by its new owners, Dr. L. C. Hornehu and Dr. W. L. Holloway of Portland this Friday. The hospital was bought fro m M rs. J . D. H a r r a h last Friday and the new owners will take possession this Friday. How ever, It may be a few 0ays before tbe hospital will be open since some new apparatus is being added and redec orating will be done. “ T)r A. E. Marble of Hermiston will be the manager of tho hospital and Mrs. W. B. Beasley will be the mat- ron. Thc new owners will not live here. There will also be a trained nurse on the staff. This center is a part of a chain of hospitals that Is being established In the northwest. Other centers are at Bend, Cornell, Condon, Portland and the principal sanitarium is at Pacific City. The name Kiawanda is taken from Cape Kiawnnda In Tillamook county. This cape is a solid deposit of min eral salts. Mineral baths will be put fn the hospital. W EATHER REPORT According to Charles Taylor of the weather bureau, the temperatures for the past week have been: High Low 31 January 2 ...~...... .............. 51 34 January 3 ........... .............. 47 28 January 4 ..................59 34 January 5 ............ .... ....... .... 38 31 January 6 ............ „................ 33 15 lanuary 7 .... ....... ..................37 10 January 8 ............ .............. 35 The rat of» II was .91 of an inch.
